I started to rack my brain on things to feed him so he can still enjoy the foods he enjoys now.
His first favorite food is chicken nuggets. As we know most frozen chicken nuggets and chicken nuggets recipes are coated with flour. So I tried to make my own gluten free version of it. Here's what I did:
Gluten-Free Chicken Nuggets
1 lb chicken breasts cut in cubes
1 cup buttermilk
Sweet White Rice flour or Glutinous Rice Flour for coating
Salt and pepper to taste
* (My son is allergic to dairy too, so make your own dairy-free buttermilk with 1 cup of soy milk mixed with 1 tablespoon of apple cider vinegar. Let sit for 10 minutes and voila!)
Directions:
1. Mix chicken cubes with buttermilk in a resealable bag. Let marinade for at least 30 minutes.
2. Season flour with some salt and pepper. You might add more seasonings if you prefer.
3. Coat each chicken generously with the flour. Make sure chicken becomes dry with flour before taking it off the flour. You can also put it in a resealable bag with the flour and shake to coat the chicken pieces.
4. If you want the chicken nuggets to be more coated, you can double-dip by dipping the chicken in buttermilk again and then in the flour again.
3. Fry! Or in my case I used my Acti-fry by just using one tablespoon of oil!
You don't have to stop there! I continued on and used the chicken to cook some Chinese Honey Garlic Chicken for dinner! Yum yum!
After cooking the chicken nuggets, I left those I'm using for my Honey Garlic Chicken on my ActiFry. I just added some cubed red bell peppers and onions and turned it on for 5 minutes.If you don't have an ActiFry though (I suggest you get one!), here's how to do it:
Honey Garlic Chicken Recipe
2 Red Bell Peppers, cubed
1 Onion, cubed
Cooked Chicken cubes *See recipe above
1 or 2 recipes of Honey Garlic Sauce as desired *See recipe below
Directions:
1. Saute onion until soft.
2. Add Red Bell Peppers and saute for 2 minutes.
3. Add fried chicken nuggets in the pan.
4. Add Honey Garlic Sauce
5. Mix mix mix!
6. Serve on rice and enjoy!
Honey Garlic Sauce
1/4 cup Honey
1 tablespoon Soy Sauce
1 tablespoon Apple Cider Vinegar
2 tablespoons Garlic minced
2 tsp Cornstarch diluted in 2 tablespoons Water
Directions:
1. Mix honey, soy sauce, vinegar and garlic in a saucepan and slowly let boil.
2. Slowly stir in cornstarch mixture.
3. Let the sauce thicken and mix with chicken while continuously stirring.
4. This can also be cooled, put in ziplock bags and freeze for future use. Just reheat and mix with your dish!
So, this recipe sounds complicated. But actually took 25 minutes from start to finish (excluding marinating time). First I put all the chicken in my ActiFry, then time it for 20 minutes. I make the sauce in a small saucepan while waiting, which took like 5 minutes! Waited 15 minutes of doing nothing. Then when the timer was done, I added the bell peppers and onions and time again for 5 minutes. Put in a serving dish when done and mix the sauce with it!
I would've uploaded a picture but.. all of it are now devoured...
